While ride-hailing ridership declined in 2020 due to COVID-19 induced restrictions like stay- at-home orders, food/grocery delivery services became quasi-essential. This study …
Social media have the potential to transform democracies as they allow for direct contact between representatives and represented. Politicians can use social media to show their …
Elected representatives have more means of public-facing communication at their disposal than ever before. Several studies examine how representatives use individual mediums, but …
Online political advertising has become the cornerstone of political campaigns. The budget spent solely on political advertising in the US has increased by more than 100% from …
L Staes, R Wouters - New Media & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
On social media, politicians present themselves on public issues to achieve re-election. Protest provides one opportunity for politicians to do so. In this study, we ask: How do …
Background The opioid epidemic is widely recognized as a legislative priority, but there is substantial variation in state adoption of evidence-based policy. State legislators' use of …
Social media is an arena of debate for contentious political and social topics. One conservation topic debated online is the acceptability of trophy hunting, a debate that has …
We develop a method for measuring a legislator's partisanship using their Twitter rhetoric. To do so, we classify over 2.1 million tweets sent during two congressional terms (2015 …